The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-06

Mrs. COLTON, widow OF General Cotton,
of California, denies that the famous let
tcrs written by c.. p. Huntington 10 her
husband were purloned and offered for
sale by her agents.
THE trouble with the negroes in Mata-
goria and Brazoria Counties. Tex, is be-
lcved to he settled for the present, and the
Houston light guards have returned. Oil
yer Shepherd, mulatto, the leader of the
negroes, has fed from the country.
The New York Court OF Appeals granted
a stay Of proceedings in the case Of Jacob
Sharp on the 29th, just as preparations
were beng made to take him to Sing Sing.
TIE New York immigration Commls-
sIoners have been requested to furnish the
Government with an explanation Of what
becomes of the fees exacted for privileges
| in Castle Garden.
F. NJ. SEVERANCE. cashier Of the defunct
/ Farmers Bank of Fayetteville, n. Y, has
been arrested on complaint Of Receiver
Andrews, charging him with embezzling
$4,000 of the banks funds.
THE new building of the College of Ply
sicans and Surgeons in New York, for the
| building of which the late William II. Van
dcrbiit left S5)O,OO0, was opened on the 29th
/ with appropriate ceremonies.
! THE steamer T. b. Symms, plying be-
| tween Memphis and ST Louis, burned re-
Gently at Island Forty, sixteen miles above
Memphis, Tenn.
A DoUBLE-HFApER freight train was
wrecked near Toledo, o., on the Both on the
/ Air Line division of the Lake Shore.
/ Both engineers and one fireman were in
! jured, and in the wreck was found the
dead body of a boy named Tvron, who had
/ beeu stealing ride
THE failures for the third quarter of 1887
! Dun's report number 1898 in the United
! States and 3JS in Canada, against 1892 in
the United States for the third quarter in
1886 and 25S in Canada. The increase In num-
Der is tritiing. But the reported liabilities OF
firms failing in the United States for the
quarter were SO, 022, $50, against 81, 221 $50
/ for the same quarter last year. and in Can
ada s., 996, l29, against 81, ,g2l9l3 last year
JUDGE BARRETT of the New York City
Supreme Court has decided that the boy
cotting of non union laborers Is punishable
as Il conspiracy.
The second race for the America cup off
Sandy Hook was won by the Volunteer
spare on the 30th This ended the races
between the two yachts, the Volunteer
winning both. The Scotchmen were much
disappointed, but admitted that their boat
was fairly beaten.
\ HIGuwAYMAN robbed two of the stage
coaches running to San Angelo, Tex, re
Gently at the point of a pistol, compelling
! the passengers to give up their Valuables.
The robber also ritled the mail packages,
w. j. BURK, the defaulting treasurer OF
Galveston County, Tex, has returned from
a long sojourn IN foreign lands and is pre-
pared to stand his trial and atone for his
msdecds.
THE Pacific Investigating Commission
ended its inquiry at New York on the 30th,
adjourning subject to the call Of the chair
man.
TIE Pacific Mail directors held q meeting
at New York on the 30th and accepted the
designations of Directors Meyerbach and
Vandcrhoof, and selected Jay Gould and e,
2. Huntington to fill the vacancies.
MUNcHRATu, convicted of manslaughter
in the Rev. Haddock killing at Sioux City,
Iowa, has been sentenced TO four years i'm
prisonment at Fort Madison.
THE house of Louis Ploight, an aged
bachelor, who lived alone Ill the country
near Duluth, Mimi, was burned early the
other morning. A few whitened bones in
the ruins indicated that Ploight lost his
life. He was in town the day before and
drew 81, 800 from the bank. Foul play was
feared.
THE Graphic Press Company, publishers
Of the Weekly Graphic, of Cincinnati and
Chicago, have assigned, with about S45 OK
assets and S36 600 liabilities.
HEAVY fires are reported in the Saginaw
valley, Michigan. In Oscoda County all the
property of the Potts Salt and Lumber
Company was destroyed.
THE prices of anthracite coal in Chicago
have again been advanced twenty-five
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